With homes under construction and families preparing to move in, Shefa Living is redefining affordable frum community life in ...

"The premise of our mission is idealistic, even romantic, but we operate on a very realistic set of values," says Jeffrey Dekro, founder and president of the Shefa Fund, a public foundation aimed at ...

Ahmed Tesema, right, the brother of homicide victim Habibi Tesema, testifies against a pardon for Amreya Shefa in St. Paul Tuesday. When it comes to staying informed in Minnesota, our newsletters ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — For years, homework was a “battle” in Johanna Shlomovich’s home. Her son, Gavi, is dyslexic and had been struggling since pre-kindergarten. By third grade, he was still reading well ...

The 99-year ground lease was possible because landlord Extell Development abandoned plans for a new development at the Upper West Side location amid a legal battle with the New York Institute of ...

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The Saipan Higher Education Financial Assistance has distributed a total of $847,000 in scholarship awards to students for the fall semester. SHEFA administrator Merissa S. Rasa said Thursday last ...

In the 1880s, when few U.S. banks would loan to Jewish immigrants, leaders of that community found their own way to finance the American Dream: They created lending institutions to help tailors, ...

The pluralistic Jewish day school for children with language-based learning challenges opened in 2014 and celebrates its first grads. Ilan Davidovsky remembers when his learning challenges affected ...

Shefa Gold is an American rabbi and scholar who serves as director of C-DEEP, The Center for Devotional, Energy and Ecstatic Practice in Jemez Springs, New Mexico. Gold is a noted teacher of chant, ...